The Real World: Post East Meck
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May 26, 2010 • written by Gabby Reed
Filed under Commentary, Senior Editorial
As I write this, I have 38 days remaining until high school graduation and—as I like to melodramatically refer to it in my mind—the end of an era.
Undoubtedly, I will be grateful to desert my daily weekday routine of 6:25 wakeup, scrounging together a lunch, and getting out the door thirty minutes later. I can’t say that I will be sorry to forever leave behind seven-hour schooldays with 90-minute classes that severely test my attention span.
But I am also well aware that, as much as I can’t wait for this year to draw to a close, I will miss it when it is gone. Though I have endured some stressful times in high school, many of these have been self-imposed. Only now am I starting to realize how rare the past four years of my life were, as a time when my main responsibility was to myself, and I was largely free from worrying about bigger issues.
I sometimes talk to my sister about how scary it will be to “be a real person.” By this, we mean the days when life is more than school and homework and social outings, and when the consequences of a job left undone are homelessness and hunger—not getting a lower grade in a class.
Ending my time as editor-in-chief is bittersweet, but I am confident that The Eagle will flourish under the leadership of Amanda Albright and with help from Laura Carroll and Maddi Pofahl. If nothing else, I hope they will create headlines using unbearably cheesy puns about soaring eagles breaking free from their nests, because I have found that the tritest phrases are also often the truest.
In that same vein, as I near the completion of 720 days of high school, my aim is predictably clichéd: to make the most of every moment.
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